fakehatecrimes.org

fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the usa

The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are recommended.

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405. It might be partly a hoax - we don't know yet 2021-01-06 Los Angeles CA https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/a-black-woman-was... A Black Woman Was Assaulted by a Mob of Trump Supporters / This report suggests this is an example of a black woman being assaulted, partly because of her race. "While no one has been arrested in connection with the attack, according to the Washington Post, th / 2021-01-09
404. A black student found the “N-word” written outside the Grammage Auditorium and posted the video on T... 2020-10-23 Phoenix AZ https://www.thecollegefix.com/hoax-black-activist-a... Hoax? Black activist, ASU give conflicting answers on racist graffiti investigation / Black student activists at Arizona State University said an investigation into racist graffiti has been resolved, but won’t share any further details. “Yes, the matter has been resolved,” Aniyah Bra / 2020-12-07
399. CA Attorney General Kamala Harris charged Mark Feigin with making a hate call to a Los Angeles mosqu... 2016-09-01 Los Angeles CA https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/26/us/hate-crime-pr... Mosque threat charge dropped in court but not in news release / Kamala Harris's successor, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, touted his office's prosecution of a man who "called in death threats" to a Los Angeles mosque. "We will not turn a blind eye t / 2018-01-27
398. Untenured professor of neuroscience and MeTooSTEM founder BethAnn McLaughlin, admitted through her l... 2020-02-01 Nashville Tennessee https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/twitter-acc... Twitter account of embattled #MeTooSTEM founder suspended / Untenured professor of neuroscience and MeTooSTEM founder BethAnn McLaughlin, admitted through her lawyer admitted of creating a fake Twitter account with fake confessions of racism at Universities an / 2020-08-03
397. Althea Bernstein says that one of the boys “threw a lit lighter” at her to ignite the fluid. Since d... 2020-06-24 Madison WI https://rkeefe57.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/the-myste... The Mysterious Case of Althea Bernstein / A woman claims to have been assaulted with cigarette lighters by 'frat boys' in Madison Wisconsin. There was a Black Lives Matter protest going on there at the time. / 2020-07-30
396. Police believe student that reported the hate crime placed racist notes himself. 2020-06-24 College Station TX https://www.kbtx.com/2020/07/10/texas-am-police-say... Texas A&M police say student who reported racist notes placed them there himself / Man who reported threatening and racist notes left on his car was found to be the likely perpetrator after police investigate security footage of the parking lot. / 2020-07-09
394. "Victim" confessed to staging hoax. 2020-06-24 Hermiston, Umatilla County Oregon https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/county-com... County commission candidate confesses to writing racist letter / A racist letter that Umatilla County commissioner candidate Jonathan Lopez claimed was left anonymously in his mailbox was written by Lopez himself, according to Lopez and Hermiston Police Chief Jason / 2020-07-06
393. "Several witnesses identified Lopez, who had frequented the park, as the shooter," The Courier Journ... 2020-06-27 Louisville KY http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61563 'White Supremacist Mass Shooter' At Jefferson Square Park Turns Out to Be Hispanic Homeless Man Steven Lopez / Twitter exploded with the claim that a 'white supremacist' was shooting Black Lives Matter protestors in a park in Louisville. For example, the actor Daniel Newman, who has nearly 1 million followers
392. Police say the six placards attached to nooses and the names of black citizens killed by the police ... 2020-06-22 Milwaukee WI https://fox6now.com/2020/06/22/mcso-photos-of-peopl... MCSO: Photos of people killed in encounters with law enforcement found hanging from nooses in Riverside Park / The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after six laminated cards were found attached to a tree with nooses in Riverside Park Saturday, June 20. MCSO officials said in a news release
391. NASCAR "noose" turns out to be a garage-door pull-rope 2020-06-21 Talladega AL https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/22/is-... UPDATE: Proved to a Certainty – Is Bubba Wallace “Rope Noose” a Hoax or Misunderstanding? All Talladega Garage Doors Have Nooses – NASCAR Video Evidence… / Noose reported in black NASCAR driver's automotive garage stall proved to be nothing more than a rope loop for pulling down the overhead garage door. Same
386. A student who reported herself as a victim of a hate crime has been charged with faking it. She alle... 2019-11-01 La Verne CA https://www.thecollegefix.com/college-student-charg... College student charged with faking hate crime against herself / California’s La Verne Police Department said it determined that last year’s “series of threats” against a University of La Verne student group and its leader Anayeli Dominguez-Pena were actually sent b / 2020-03-11
384. Online report 2020-02-19 Southaven Mississippi https://wreg.com/news/southaven-man-who-reported-ra... Southaven man who reported racist graffiti on vehicles charged with insurance fraud / A black Mississippi man was charged with insurance fraud after he reported racist graffiti had been spray-painted on two of his vehicles. / 2020-02-28
383. Newly release video and 911 audio show employees who assaulted Popeye bodyslam victim were lying abo... 2019-11-11 Nashville Tennessee https://fox17.com/news/local/new-surveillance-video... New surveillance video released from Popeyes body slam incident in Columbia / Newly release video and 911 audio show employees who assaulted Popeye bodyslam victim were lying about every single aspect of the incident. / 2020-01-30
382. "Victim" likely sprayed his own car as part of an insurance fraud. 2020-02-02 Southaven MI https://wreg.com/news/southaven-man-who-reported-ra... Southaven man who reported racist graffiti on vehicles charged with insurance fraud / A Mississippi man was charged with insurance fraud after he reported racist graffiti had been spray-painted on two of his vehicles. / 2020-02-28
381. First reported headline was "Philadelphia Police Investigating After Mural Depicting Cecil B. Moore ... 2020-02-15 Philadelphia PA https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/02/26/philad... Philadelphia Police Release Images Of Suspect Wanted For Spray-Painting Racial Slurs On Cecil B. Moore Mural / Philadelphia police released images of a suspect wanted for spray-painting racial slurs on the mural of a black historical figure and 2 other locations. Video shows a young black male doing the graffi
380. Police uncovered video evidence that claims of a 15 year old student being called N-word and hateful... 2020-02-03 Waukesha Wisconsin https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/waukesha... Go Home N-Word - Student Says Athletes beat him in hateful attack; Police say that's not true / A Waukesha student involved in a parking lot brawl says it was racially motivated. Police say that's not true. A fight at a Waukesha shopping center resulted in the arrest of six Waukesha high schoo / 2020-02-04
376. Andy Ngo cites empirical data from a human rights organisation showing that the murder of transexual... 2019-11-20 Portland Oregon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Y0frT9sP0 Andy Ngo suspended from Twitter for correcting Chelsea Clinton's claims about hate crimes / "On 27 Nov. 2019, I was interviewed on OANN about being suspended from Twitter after tweeting that there is no epidemic of trans people being killed in the U.S. Twitter deemed the tweet "hateful conduc / 2019-11-27
375. Abdirahim “Husu” Hussein, a Somali-born Finnish politician, apologised for faking a hate crime, when... 2019-11-13 Helsinki Finland https://nationalfile.com/finnish-politician-apologi... Finnish Politician Apologises for Fake Hate Crime / Abdirahim “Husu” Hussein, a Somali-born Finnish politician, apologised for faking a hate crime, when he said he had to throw someone out of a taxi for racial abuse. / 2019-11-14
374. Canadian hockey coach claimed to be victim of racial discrimination in schools where he taught, but ... 2019-10-14 Toronto ON https://www.thepostmillennial.com/he-never-taught-h... “He never taught here”: ice rink disputes claim of racism by hockey coach / A Muslim hockey coach’s story about being the victim of a parent’s hateful text message is falling apart upon scrutiny and the revelation he made a similar allegation in 2017. / 2019-10-18
373. Britain hasn't become twice as bigoted in five years. Like all Western countries, its tolerance of m... 2019-10-15 London UK http://archive.is/NM17N Hate crimes double in five years in England and Wales / The number of hate crimes reported to police has more than doubled since 2013, according to government figures, which also showed a large increase last year in offences against people based on sexual o / 2019-10-15
372. A 12-year-old black girl claimed racist white boys had cut off her dreadlocks. Then she admitted she... 2019-10-03 Springfield VA https://nypost.com/2019/10/03/why-we-keep-falling-f... Why we keep falling for hate-crime hoaxes / Starting with this recent Virginia case, Andy Ngo asks why Americans are so credulous of these stories. "Left-wing activists and the mainstream media refuse to learn lessons about hate-crime hoaxes." / 2019-10-03
371. Victim family admitted that it was hoax. 2019-09-27 fairfax VA https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/virg... Virginia sixth-grader now says she falsely accused classmates of cutting her hair / Last week, The 12-year-old, who is African American, said three white male students held her down in a school playground a week ago during recess, covered her mouth, called her insulting names and used / 2019-09-30
370. The information for this story comes from the Anti-Defamation League. It tries to give the impressio... 2019-09-26 New York NY https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/ok-ha... 'OK' hand gesture, 'bowl cut' added to hate symbols database / A New York organization has a database of extremist symbols, and it has added the 'OK' hand gesture to it. / 2019-09-26
369. Edwan Coughman is charged with wrecking his own restaurants and writing racist and pro-Trump slogans... 2019-09-14 Tampa FL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Su_FaLx_NA "Jussie Smollett 2.0" CAUGHT Red Handed, Sprayed "MAGA" And Slur On Wall, ARRESTED And CHARGED / Ex-Tampa Bay NFL player charged with fake hate crime - trashing two restaurants he owns and spraying the N-word and "MAGA" on the walls / 2019-09-15
368. Trans "woman" faking a hate crime. 2019-05-10 Urbana–Champaign Illinois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSK3K0Kdix4 Hate Crime Hoaxes / Hate crime hoaxes / 2019-05-28
366. A 40% increase in religious hatred in one year would be impossible in a modern Western country. 2019-08-20 London UK https://archive.fo/jpqG3 How mainstream media fuels the UK's Islamophobia crisis / There has been a 40% increase in religious hatred in the UK, most of it directed toward Muslims. / 2019-08-20
365. How the SPLC encouraged violence against a conservative Christian organization 2019-08-17 Montgomery AL https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/17/s... The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered / The Southern Poverty Law Center describes hate groups as groups whose statements cause individuals to use violence in defense of their political views. Using this criterion, the Family Research Council / 2019-08-17
363. An article about the fake hate crime epidemic in the UK, blamed on Brexit 2016-08-27 Harlow UK https://quillette.com/2019/07/18/is-surging-hate-cr... Is Surging Hate Crime in the UK Overcooked? / Ben Cobley, author of "The Tribe: the Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity", shows how the England & Wales police define a hate crime - "For recording purposes, the perception of the victim, or any / 2019-07-18
362. Wilfred Reilly's book exposes numerous hate hoaxes - this video describes some of them 2019-05-28 Chicago IL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSK3K0Kdix4 Hate Crime Hoaxes / Hate crime hoaxes / 2019-05-28
361. Wilfrid Reilly, author of 'Hate Crime Hoax', explains why a hate-crime epidemic never was. 2019-05-09 Seattle WA https://quillette.com/2019/07/07/the-hate-crime-epi... The Hate-Crime Epidemic That Never Was: A Seattle Case Study / The Seattle Times recently reported that an epidemic of hate crimes is taking place in the Emerald City. According to the newspaper, more than 500 bias incidents were reported to Seattle police in 2018 / 2019-07-07
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